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The Counterfeit Countess Book by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa

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  • As “Countess Janina Suchodolska,” Mehlberg worked as a welfare official in Lublin, Poland—home of the infamous Majdanek concentration camp—where she smuggled food and medicine to prisoners, eventually rescuing more than 10,000 imprisoned Poles
  • Historians White and Sliwa bring her remarkable story to life, drawing on her unpublished memoir and their own research
  • Paperback; 305 pgs.

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Dr. Josephine Mehlberg was a Jewish doctor in Poland who posed as a Polish aristocrat in order to evade Nazi capture. As “Countess Janina Suchodolska,” Mehlberg worked as a welfare official in Lublin, Poland—home of the infamous Majdanek concentration camp—where she smuggled food and medicine to prisoners, eventually rescuing more than 10,000 imprisoned Poles. Historians White and Sliwa bring her remarkable story to life, drawing on her unpublished memoir and their own research. Paperback; 305 pgs.

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